This joyful, vibrant album serves as a sonic and thematic counterpoint to The Loneliest Time.
The album is a markedly more stoic effort from a singer who, up until now, has been relentlessly upbeat.
We took in over 100 performances across nine different stages and narrowed down the 10 best sets.
The album demonstrates the tangled multi-dimensionality of both the singer’s own psyche and the act of sex itself.
The album doubles down on the singer’s devotion to all things love and ’80s pop-rock.
Carly Rae Jepsen drops her new single “Party for One,” her first since “Cut to the Feeling.”
Listen to a playlist of the best singles of the year on YouTube and Spotify.
The animation’s careful attention to detail is undermined by an anxious pandering to contemporary sensibilities.
The track is finally seeing the light of day via the soundtrack to the Canadian animated film Leap!
The year’s best singles found new, inventive means of correspondence between the past and the present.
The album is further proof that Jepsen is capable of translating broadly understood emotions and experiences into unshakable earworms.
Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” pounds its message of survivalism with nothing resembling nuance, but also nothing resembling fragility.
Fish shouldn’t be out of water and birds have no business in the water.